...iberations and to help find sensitive and workable solutions to these pressing issues." Who the Public Trusts to Provide Scientific Information When asked whom they trust as a reliable source of information about the environment and the natural world, the public overwhelmingly looks to scientists for a reliab...

...ing the conditions that encourage these biological solutions to form crystals. If the crystals form in an orderly fashion, their structure can be analyzed on Earth. By determining the structure of these biological substances, scientists can learn how they work in humans, animals, and plants, including what rol...

...ancy, but it seems to be one of the more promising solutions to bone loss during long-term space flight," he said. As for the students, they're captivated by space. Rudner has been accepted at Baylor College of Medicine, where he hopes to become a flight surgeon, and Hamerski said he would find it "awesome" to...

...cators that will help link stressors, sources, and solutions between upstream watersheds and downstream estuaries. For effective management, it is critical to understand and document linkages between upstream watersheds and downstream estuaries in order to protect, manage and restore receiving waters, estuarie...

...d Scherr. "We are saying that there are strategic solutions for conserving wild biodiversity and producing food on the same land." International attention has recently been drawn to a range of situations that dramatize the need for ecoagriculture: In Chinas Wolong Nature Reserve, established to pr...

...without soil amendments. We will more likely find solutions in measures such as burning less fossil fuel and planting more trees in high-nutrient soils." Prof. Ram Oren of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, also was a principal investigator on the project. The res...

...ironmentally sustainable and economically feasible solutions to the world wide greenhouse gas problem. "This te...ng will still occur but at a lesser rate. Finding solutions to reduce the emissions is vital if we are to avoid potentially destructive climate change," he says...

...nvestigate, the Science authors added vitamin C to solutions of lipid hydroperoxides in the lab. They used concentrations comparable to those found in the human body, assuming a person would take 200 milligrams a day. The vitamin was more than twice as efficient as transition metal ions at inducing the for...

...have developed innovative processes that offer new solutions to the agriculture, textile, automobile, paper, and water treatment industries - some with the potential to improve earnings as well as the environment. The 30 previous recipients of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards have made a signi...

...genomics workshop in 1997. "We learned that many solutions to technical problems arrived at in one discipline can serve as object lessons for the other." Bult added that when some of the display and interactivity features of GIS maps are ported to genomics maps, genetic maps will go from being mere display t...

...tal problem, her research often includes practical solutions that lead scientific, commercial and political interests toward a common goal - restoring fragile ocean habitats. In 1996, for example, a year after receiving her doctorate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Micheli obtained a grant f...

...overn gene expression is crucial in the search for solutions to pressing human health problems such as cancer and infectious diseases. "We are going to be studying the structural biology of transcription and regulation, the statistical physics associated with it, computer modeling of the elementary molecules t...

...nd conservationists favor biocontrol over chemical solutions such as insecticides and pesticides to eradicate or maintain weeds, bugs, and sometimes disease. Yet, if not tested properly beforehand, in a community-wide context, introduced species can do more harm than the plant or animal they target, the new st...

...l research may have the potential to offer medical solutions for serious diseases that cause terrible suffering. AAAS therefore is "pleased that the President has decided to endorse federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research," according to a statement issued today. The statement explains that info...

...y known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a technology solutions provider with a broad range of high-performance computing, advanced graphics and consulting services that enable its technical and creative customers to maintain a competitive advantage in their core businesses. Whether being used to design and build...

... center uses ad hoc and homegrown systems software solutions to, for example, schedule jobs and monitor the health of the supercomputers." With the center, problems solved at one DOE computer center could be leveraged to other centers. "The Scalable Systems Software Center provides the opportunity to create an...

...ic oxide-releasing and untreated control slides to solutions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common infection-causing bacterium. Bacterial adhesion was as much as 70 percent lower on the nitric oxide-releasing slides. Preventing bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation is vital for reducing infection since biofil...

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